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Obesity Management Toolkit

Employer Resources

These quick links provide easy access to tools you can use to address obesity in your population.

Use the links below to learn more about supporting your members on their weight loss journey.

Up to half of new type 2 diabetes cases in the U.S. linked to obesity, American Heart Association, February 10, 2021
Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Anti-Obesity Treatment: Where Do We Stand? Metabolise, January 2021
Prescription Medications to Treat Overweight & Obesity, NIDDK, June 2021
Obesity is Biggest Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factor, US News, April 16, 2020
Direct, Absenteeism, and Disability Cost Burden of Obesity Among Privately Insured Employees, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, February 2020
Obesity in the Workplace: What Employers Can Do Differently, Milken Institute, 2020
Multi-Component Worksite Obesity Prevention, Population Health and Healthcare Office, CDC, 2019
Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Adults: 2017-2018, NCHS Data Brief, February 2020
Projected U.S. State-Level Prevalence of Adult Obesity & Severe Obesity, NEJM, December 19, 2019
Clinically Driven Payment and Benefit Design to Improve Health Equity: The Case of Obesity Prevention and Treatment, Health Affairs, September 9, 2021
Report of the 50^th Anniversary of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health, March 2020 Includes Actions for the Future: Worksites (p. 23)
Wellness & Obesity: Results, Knowledge and Success
Drive the Right Weigh

Northeast Business Group on Health

Workplace Weight Management in the New Normal

National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions

Obesity Portal: A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Address Change
Obesity Action Brief: Confronting a Misunderstood and Undermanaged Workforce Disease
Obesity Action Brief: Bariatric Surgery: A Fresh Look at Benefit Design Considerations
Addressing Obesity through Holistic Design for Affordability and Sustainability, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, February 2024

General Information

Adult Overweight & Obesity, CDC
Workplace Health Promotion: Obesity, CDC
Diabetes Risk Overview, American Diabetes Association
AIM for a Healthy Weight, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
All About Obesity, American Association of Clinical Endocrinology
The Obesity Society (professionals collaborating to overcome obesity)
America's Obesity Crisis Milken Institute
The State of Obesity, Better Policies for a Healthier America, Trust for America’s Health, September 2020

Obesity & COVID-19

The bad news – and the good – about obesity and COVID-19, American Medical Association, April 14, 2021
Body Mass Index and Risk for COVID-19-Related Hospitalization, ICU Admission, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Death – United States March – December 2020, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, March 12, 2021
Large Meta-analysis Digs into Obesity’s COVID-19 Risks, Medical News & Perspectives, JAMA, October 15, 2020

Obesity Prevention Strategies, Harvard School of Public Health

EEOC Ruling on Incentives

EEOC Proposes—Then Suspends—Regulations on Wellness Program Incentives, SHRM, January 13, 2021
How the Proposed EEOC Wellness Incentive Rules May Impact Workplace Wellness Programs, WELCOA, February 8, 2021
EEOC Offers New Wellness Program Rules For Employers – Proposed Rules Explained to be Finalized Soon!, Leavitt Group, 2021
EECOC Issues New Rules on Wellness Programs, Clark Baird and Smith, LLP, 2018

Click on the links below to review the final 2016 rules as they relate to ADA and GINA:

Musculoskeletal Disorders

Obesity and Musculoskeletal Care, Information Statement, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, June 2022
How Fat Affects Osteoarthritis, Arthritis Foundation
Obesity and Overweight, WHO, June 2021
Does weight loss reduce the incidence of total knee and hip replacement for osteoarthritis? A prospective cohort study among middle-aged and older adults with overweight or obesity. International Journal of Obesity, May 2021
Obesity Consequences: Health Risks, Harvard School of Public Health, Obesity Prevention Source

Mental Health and Depression

Higher adiposity and mental health: Causal inference using Mendelian randomization, Human Molecular Genetics, December 2021
The Complex Link Between Depression and Weight, WebMD, August 2021
Can treatment of obesity reduce depression or vice versa? Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, March 2021
Depression Screening in Obesity: A Quality Improvement Project, Clinical Advisor, December 2019
Health Risks: Weight Problems Take a Hefty Toll on Body and Mind, Harvard School of Public Health, Obesity Prevention Source

Comorbidities

Chronic Diseases in America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reviewed May 6, 2022
Complications/Comorbidities of Obesity, Rethink Obesity
Obesity and Comorbid Conditions, National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, May 2, 2022
Body-mass index and risk of obesity-related complex multimorbidity: an observational multicohort study, The Lancet: Diabetes & Endocrinology, March 03, 2022
Effects of sustained weight loss on outcomes associated with obesity comorbidities and health care resource utilization, Plos One, November 3, 2021
Let’s Talk About the Complications of Obesity, Health Central, September 2021

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